Monday, April 1, 2013

ATHALIAH (Grandmas and Grandkids)

A for Athaliah- First post in a series of articles....@ A to Z

Source Confident Living

Solomon said, “Children’s children are the crown of old men”
(Proverb 17:6). My wife and I have twelve grandchildren whom we love
dearly. Someone said that a woman begins
to show her age at about the same time she begins to show pictures of her
grandchildren. I have watched my wife
force perfect strangers to look at pictures of our grandchildren.

NAME: “The Time of Jehovah”

DATE: 9TH Century BC

IDENTIFICATION: Judah’s only queen, daughter of Ahab and
Jezubel

STORY LINE: Athaliah killed her grandsons, but God saved
Joash

READ IN THE BIBLE: 2 Kings 11:1-16

Not all grandmothers are a proud of their grandchildren as
my wife is of ours. Take Athaliah, for
example. She was married to King Jehoram
(Joram), the son of Jehoshaphat, but her values were forged in her early years
as the daughter of King Ahab of Israel and his notoriously wicked wife,
Jezebel.

Like her mother, Athaliah worshiped the Canaanite god Baal
and browbeat her husband to do the same.
After Jehoram died, their son Ahaziah become king, and Athaliah exerted
the same evil influence over him.

Ahaziah was killed after only one year, and Athaliah saw an
opportunity to seize Judah’s throne for herself. That required, however, destroying all the
males in the royal family. Grandma
Athaliah never flinched as she killed her own grandchildren to become Judah’s
only queen.

But Jehoshaphat, Jehoram’s daughter rescued one of her
infant nephews, Joash, and hid him away for seven years. Finally, in a secret ceremony in the temple,
Joash was crowned king, and when his surprised grandmother showed up she was
executed.

Dr. Kroll

There are two particularly memorable grandmothers in the
Bible. Athaliah is remembered for her
ruthlessness toward her grandchildren. Lois is remembered for having taught her
grandson God’s Word from childhood. One
grandmother was a miserable failure, the other an undeniable success. What will you be remembered for.

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